The United States is the only country in the world that sports every kind of topography and environment imaginable. Deserts, forests, oceans, lakes, rivers, water basins, glaciers, mountains, valleys, plains, you name it. Even sand dunes, as evidenced by the Great Sand Dunes National Park in the state of Colorado.

Here, you will find the tallest sand dunes in North America, which tower up to 750 feet (230 m) and were formed by deposits of the ancient Rio Grande in the San Luis Valley. Also sporting a variety of grasslands, shrublands and wetlands, the Great Sand Dunes National Park also enjoys alpine lakes, six 13,000-foot mountains and hauntingly beautiful old-growth forests.

The park is an awesome locale to work on your tan and sand-hiking skills, explore amazing wildlife and practice amateur photography. To learn more about Great Sand Dunes National Park, you can go here: https://lnkd.in/g96yc2W. And to learn about our project to train U.S. Veterans for a new career in 4K ultra high-definition and virtual reality videography, visit our headquarters company here: http://59veterans.com/.

Check out this awesome new train from Italy slated to join other high speed rail trains traveling at super speed throughout Europe soon.

We need to have this train here in the United States of America. And all of us here at FRIENDS OF HSR can’t wait! For we need high speed rail in America. We deserve to have high speed rail in America. For it’s darn stupid and detrimental to our entire transportation system and ecological and economical existence that we don’t!

Katmai National Park in Alaska has lots of brown bears, and you can watch them on live videos available through the National Park Service page on Facebook. Herewith is one clip for your viewing enjoyment. You can click on the link inside this post on the 59 Veterans fan page on Facebook to watch the live feeds from Katmai National Park and other amazing videos. Simply go here first: https://lnkd.in/bFEDhp9

TRANSPORTATION & HSR TRAINS! While the implementation of high speed rail in America continues to languish and go nowhere under a widespread avalanche of repetitive studies, rhetorical debate, vetoed initiatives, political wrangling and money haggling, the rest of the world continues to lay new track and bring incredibly fast, sophisticated and enjoyable high speed rail to people everywhere.

Case in point: Spain, which plans to have a new HSR line up and running and connecting Madrid to neighboring Portugal in just two years. I may visit Spain in 2019 just to ride it. And to experience what I haven’t experienced in America in a long time: technological advancement and progress!

Here at the 59 VETERANS PROJECT our goal is to launch our enterprise to helps veterans across the country. But today we wish to take a moment to acknowledge Hurricane Irma and the people in Florida suffering its onslaught.

It’s a hurricane and disaster of unprecedented proportions, and our prayers go out to everyone in The Sunshine State. Please be safe, and Godspeed.

Meanwhile, to learn about our project and enjoy our stimulating stories for and about our military veterans and national parks, visit us on Facebook here…https://www.facebook.com/59veterans/

The first mass production type of high speed rail bullet train, the CR400AF Fuxinghao (The Revival), began its service at Beijing South Railway Station in China this past June, immediately after an unveiling ceremony the day before.

It’s a magnificent HSR train, and it’s a tragedy we have nothing close to it here in the United States. China continues to increase and improve it’s high speed rail routes and fleets of bullet trains.

Meanwhile, America continues to languish in massive vehicular traffic jams and gridlock, traveling aboard sardine-can, customer abusive airliners and being ferried via an old, slow-moving train system not much improved since the 1950s. Do Americans have to go to China or Europe to experience world-class transportation again?

Did you know that South Korea now has high speed rail? In fact, the country has four different lines in service and plans to build more and have them in place in time for the Winter Olympics coming to Seoul late next year.

How many HSR lines in service in the United States? Zero!

But who knows. Maybe South Korea will become our inspiration and motivation to once more become the innovative, technologically advanced country we used to be. And escape the inferior bonds of a second-rate transportation country.